CREATE Staff
Dr. Jan Plass, Director • jan.plass@nyu.edu
Dr. Plass is the founding director of the Consortium for Research and Evaluation of Advanced Technologies in Education (CREATE) and Associate Professor of Educational Communication and Technology. He is also the director of the program in Educational Communication and Technology at NYU Steinhardt. He holds an MA in mathematics and physics education and a Ph.D. in instructional technologies from Erfurt University (PH Erfurt) in Germany. His primary research areas span cognitive science and educational technology, especially multimedia and web-based learning, with a focus on science education and second-language acquisition. More…
Dr. Ricki Goldman, Co-Director • ricki@nyu.edu
Ricki Goldman joined the Educational Communications and Technology Program, and CREATE in 2005. Her research focuses on digital video ethnography and learning communities. She earned her Ph.D. at the MIT Media Lab in the Epistemology & Learning Group, her M.A. at Hebrew University, Jerusalem in Education/Language, and her B.A. at University of British Columbia in English Literature. More…
Dr. Bruce Homer, Director for Research • BHomer@gc.cuny.edu
Dr. Bruce Homer is Director for Research at CREATE. Dr. Homer is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the Graduate Center, CUNY.  He received an MA in Applied Cognitive Science and a Ph.D. in Human Development and Applied Psychology from the University of Toronto. Dr. Homer’s research explores how biological, cognitive and cultural factors influence developmental changes in children’s mental representations. More…
Chaoyan Dong, Ph.D., Post Doctoral Scholar • cd571@nyu.edu
Chaoyan Dong joined Electronic Media Patient Education Institute (EMPEI) at CREATE in 2007, with Dr. Wall and his doctoral researchers. Her research interests include exploring how aesthetically pleasing multimedia design affects learning through the moderation of learners' emotions, examining how digital media affects learning in both formal and informal settings, and how to establish rich technology integrated learning environments that support understanding of content. She holds an M.S. in Educational Technology from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. from the Educational Communication and Technology Program at New York University.
Dr. Yan Wang, Post Doctoral Scholar • yan.wang@nyu.edu
Yan Wang joined CREATE and the Educational Communications and Technology Program in 2007 as a Post Doctoral Scholar. Her research interests include exploring cognitive and cultural factors affecting learning from multiple perspectives in problem solving settings, and factors affecting collaborative learning and virtual community building. She earned her Ed.D. and M.A. in  Instructional Technology and Media at Teachers College, Columbia University and received her B.A. in International Economic Cooperation from Xi'an International Studies University (Xi'an Foreign Language University) in China.

CREATE Faculty Affiliates
Dr. Trace Jordan • trace.jordan@nyu.edu
Dr. Jordan is Associate Director of the Morse Academic Plan, NYU’s general education curriculum, with responsibility for the Foundations of Scientific Inquiry program. He regularly teaches non-majors science courses including Energy and the Environment, Human Genetics, and The Molecules of Life. Dr. Jordan is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry. His teaching and research interests focus on creative approaches in science education, especially for undergraduate liberal arts students. These include curriculum design, molecular simulations, and exploring the connections between science and societal issues.
Dr. Jordan has received NYU’s Outstanding Teaching Award and his work has received grant support from the National Science Foundation and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.
Dr. Catherine Milne cem4@nyu.edu
Catherine Milne is an Assistant Professor of Science Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at New York University. Her research interests include identity, teaching and teacher education, learning science in urban schools and the role of history and philosophy of science in school science.
Dr. Roxana Moreno moreno@unm.edu
Dr. Moreno is an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico. Her research includes software agents in interactive multimedia learning environments, virtual reality environments for science learning, deriving instructional design principles from cognitive theory, and visual metaphors for meaning making in mathematics. More...
Dr. W. Michael Reed w.michael.reed@nyu.edu
W. Michael Reed, Professor and Director of the Educational Communication and Technology Program, has focused his recent research on hypermedia/multimedia development and developers' learning styles. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Reed's research has focused on problem-solving and authoring, integrating technology in teacher education, and cognition and hypermedia. More...
Dr. Francine Shuchat Shaw francine.shaw@nyu.edu
Associate Professor Francine Shuchat Shaw has been a member of the faculty of the Program in Educational Communication and Technology since 1976. She served as Program Director from 1986 until 1998, and she now serves as Coordinator of the Master of Arts program. Her research interests include the instructional design of media environments, learning theory, and, most particularly, the design and development of video-based learning environments informed by progressive, cognitive, and constructivist views of learning and instruction. Her interests also include the history of instructional technology, its theoretical underpinnings, and its relationship to broader educational and social movements.
Stephen Wall, MD, MS sqw2073@nyu.edu
Dr. Wall is the director of the Electronic Media Patient Education Institute (EMPEI) at CREATE.  He is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Bellevue Hospital Center and the New York University School of Medicine.  He received his Masters of Science in Health Services Research at the UCLA School of Public Health (2003), and currently is in the Masters of Education, Communication, and Technology program at New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.  Dr. Wall’s research interests are focused on investigating multimedia education methods aimed at informing patients, in culturally sensitive ways, about their medical problems and risk for illness.  The goal of these investigations is to self-empower underserved patients through improved understanding of health issues pertaining to their unique socio-ethnic groups, so as to improve their overall health and quality of life.

Dr. Wall received a K08 career development award through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to research multimedia education methods to improve organ donation willingness among the multiethnic communities served by the Bellevue Hospital Center Emergency Department. Currently, Dr. Wall is supervising digital video ethnography studies on patients presenting to the Bellevue Emergency Department to determine their baseline organ donation beliefs, and how these communities wish to learn more about organ donation, in a culturally sensitive manner. Dr. Wall has recruited a consortium of experts to apply novel educational methods to improve organ donation rates among the diverse ethnic groups inhabiting NYC.  His team of investigators includes Lewis Goldfrank, MD, Chairman of the New York University School of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine, Eric Grossman, MD, Medical Director of the New York Organ Donor Network, and his ECT faculty mentors, Ricki Goldman, Ph.D., Jan Plass, Ph.D., and Francine Shuchat Shaw, Ph.D.  Dr. Wall’s research team also consists of his postdoctoral research fellow and recent graduate of the ECT PhD program, Chaoyan Dong, PhD, and current ECT doctoral candidates Tsu-Ting Hung and Gabriella Richard.  With assistance from the CREATE members, Dr. Wall and his team of co-investigators are pursuing additional funding to investigate other innovative methods to self-empower patients through acquiring knowledge about their health including using ORION to introduce health education perspectivity memes, educational games, and human computer interaction.

CREATE Doctoral Affiliates
Ian Aronson (research assistant, COJS, 2004-2007) ia14@nyu.edu
Yoo Kyung Chang (research assistant, Molecules & Minds) ykc211@nyu.edu
Jim Diamond (research assistant, VAP) jpd247@nyu.edu
Reneta D. Lansiquot (research assistant, Molecules & Minds, 2005-2007) reneta@nyu.edu
Gabriela Richard (research assistant, EMPEI at CREATE, 2007-Present) gabriela@nyu.edu
Christine Rosalia (ECT Program Graduate Assistant, 2005-2007) christine.rosalia@nyu.edu
Ruth Schwartz (research assistant, Molecules & Minds) rns221@nyu.edu
Hyuk Soon Song (research assistant, WISE-MD) hss258@nyu.edu
Rachel Eunjoon Um rachel.um@nyu.edu

CREATE International Affiliates
Dr. Roland Brünken, University of the Saarland, Germany
Dr. Detlev Leutner, University of Essen, Germany
Dr. Kathy Takayama, University of New South Wales, Australia

CREATE Past Affiliates
Dr. Minchi Kim • minchi@purdue.edu
Minchi Kim joined CREATE in 2006 as a Post Doctoral Scholar. Her research focuses on scaffolding students scientific problem solving with technology-enhanced learning environments, advancing pedagogical framework for learning and teaching in technology-rich classes, and integrating emergent technologies into K-12 classes. She earned her Ph.D. and M.Ed. in Instructional Technology at University of Georgia and her B.A. at Ewha Woman's University. Dr. Kim serves now as Assistant Professor of Educational Technology at Purdue University.

Dr. Robert Whelan • robert.whelan@usp.ac.fj
Dr. Robert Whelan served as first coordinator of CREATE from 2001–2005. He received his PhD. in Educational Communication and Technology from NYU in 2005. Dr. Whelan currently serves as Lecturer andInstructional. Designer. The University of the South Pacific, Fiji.